Strange Heaven

Lynn Coady was born in 1970 and grew up in Port Hawkesbury, an industrial town on Cape Breton Island. By the time she got her BA from Carleton University she knew she wanted to be a writer. After living for a year on a farm in Malagash, Nova Scotia.She spent a year each in Saint John, Sackville, and Fredericton, working when she could, often as a nanny and baby-sitter. While in Fredericton Lynn wrote her first play, Cowboy Names, staged by Theatre Fredericton in 1995, and most of Strange Heaven. In 1996, she moved to Vancouver to study creative writing at the University of British Columbia. Her thesis work, a play entitled Monster, was a finalist in 1996 Theatre BC's National Playwrighting Competition and premiered at the 1998 Kelowna Fringe Festival. Lynn has published stories in Other Voices, Free Magazine, The Antigonish Review, and The Fiddlehead. She was the winner of the 1998 CAA / Air Canada Award for the most promising writer in Canada under 30 years of age. Strange Heaven won the Dartmouth Book Award and the 1999 APBA Booksellers Choice Award. In 1998 it was also nominated for the Governor General's Award for Fiction and the Thomas Raddall Prize. Her short story collection Play the Monster Blind .was released this spring.Coady, Lynn is the author of 'Strange Heaven' with ISBN 9780864923202 and ISBN 0864923201.